How much revenue did Superflight make?

$327k–$880k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Superflight sell?

Q: How many copies did Superflight sell?

398k to 647k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 398k–647k; $327k–$880k after Steam's cut $595k–$1.4M before the cut; from 12k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Superflight out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Superflight's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 522k–1.1M

best case 1.7M (Besiege)

Games like Superflight

The middle of these games

≈ 522k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.2M–$7.1M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Flight (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Besiege at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Flight (4 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Sandbox, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2020, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Besiege 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.5M before the cut	$14.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationSandbox
The Plan 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayIndie
Race The Sun 2013	Est. copies ≈ 401k–652k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before the cut	$9.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Procedural GenerationRunner
AER Memories of Old 2017	Est. copies ≈ 265k–431k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before the cut	$14.99	8k reviews Very Positive	AdventureExploration
SpaceEngine 2019	Est. copies ≈ 472k–767k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.9M–$10.5M after Steam's cut $7.1M–$16.1M before the cut	$29.99	16k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Early AccessOpen World
A Short Hike 2019	Est. copies ≈ 651k–1.1M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before the cut	$7.99	23k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ExplorationRelaxing
Transport Fever 2016	Est. copies ≈ 451k–733k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.4M before the cut	$29.99	11k reviews Very Positive	FlightCity Builder
Learn to Fly 3 2017	Est. copies ≈ 388k–631k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayCasual